-Host Egypt joined Nigeria in the Round of 16 with a 2 nil win over the DR Congo in Wednesday night
-Defending champions Cameroon started the 2019 African Cup of Nations on a high note, after beating Guinea Bissau by two goals to nil.
-Despite being singled out as one of the weakest football nations on the continent, Mauritania played for the first time in the Africa Cup of Nations, where they faced a strong and much more experienced Mali national side
-Algeria strolled past Kenya by two goals to nil, while Senegal barely broke a sweat in their two-nil victory over Tanzania in the first match of group C.
-Namibia's Brave Warriors were heart-broken at the end of their first game in the 2019 African Cup of Nations against Morocco on Sunday.
-Life Fighters striker Isaskar "Bio" Gurirab was the biggest winner at the NPL Awards which took place at a local hotel in Windhoek Saturday night
-Namibia Premier League administrators have announced the nominees who will compete against each other for top honours at this year's MTC Premiership Sport Awards, which were supposed to take place this past weekend but have been postponed to the 15th June of at Safari Court and Hotel
-World football governing body FIFA on Friday announced the extention of the NFA Normalisation Committee to the 15th of October this year.
